Burnt
This weekend has come and go, im truly insane and my body is hurting because of it. All this week I was in NC visiting my folks and I got nothing accomplished that I wanted to. There’s something about working off the kitchen table that just impedes my work, I don’t know how some people do it… Anyway, I left a little early not only to get back into the swing of things, but also to participate in the CTF Prequals hosted by Kenshoto. This year was a lot harder than last year but I’m pretty content with my progress. I had made an attempt at assembling a team and out of those 8 people only two really showed up. I feel bad giving Randy shit about pursuing a PHD Cause it apparently paid off, dude contributed a lot and without our colaboration I think I would have fell short. I actually ended up knocking out a few trivia questions, and I kicked off Forensics 100 and Reversing for 1-300. 400 didn’t open up untill very early sunday morning and it was a killer. The question was “We found this running on your box, you tell us what it is” As far as I got was deciphering the fact that it was a kernel driver, and from there on out I was burnt. The real world category was new this year and kicked ass, a lil exploitation f00 for ya ear. Randy pulled through with the pawnables 100 by figuring out the finger daemon vuln! Adam from H town who I met through AHA! hooked it up too, him and I did a lot of collaboration on the Reversing challenges. He got burnted out last night and went to bed so Randy and I kicked 200 back and forth. Turned out the service was Acking Syn packets instead of SYn Acking. Randy came through with the hping f00. But I owe a great deal of gratitude to the cats in HTA who were kicking some f00 and helping along with the collaboration and realworld 200, pwnables 200.
Overall, last year Randy and I came up 57 / 160.
This year, with 1 hour left We are 34 / 450.
Definately learned a few things. I particularly enjoyed the optimized Libc functions that needed RE, and picked up some forensics f00 as well!
For a nice taste of some of the paste challenges, head over to nopsr.us